Prototype 2′s new hero wants to kill Prototype 1′s old hero (preview)

The Prototype franchise is built off a power fantasy. The team at Radical Entertainment wants to give players the feeling of being an unstoppable juggernaut of destruction. In the sequel, they still do that, but it will have a twist.

Instead of playing as Alex Mercer, the hero of the original, players take on the role of Sgt. James Heller, a veteran from the Afghanistan war who returns home to find out that Mercer killed his family. A distraught Heller vows to kill Mercer even if the original Prototype is much stronger than he is. It’s a different way of resetting the powers from one game to another. In Metroidgames, Samus always loses her powers in some ridiculous fashion. In Mass Effect 2, BioWare actually kills Commander Shepard and resurrects him to start his powers back from beginning.

Heller will have similar powers as Alex. He can shapeshift and assume other people’s identities and memories. Black tendrils shoot out of him in some instances. He even has a Mercer’s signature arm blade, but Heller’s has a serrated edge to it in acknowledgement to his military background.

WHAT’S NEW: Taking place 14 months after the original, the game features a new setting called New York Zero. This time around, the city is divided into three sections the Red Zone, where Alex resides. It’s all nasty, alien and where the Blacklight virus can mutate and grow unhindered. The Yellow Zone is a triage area full of shanty towns and the poor. It’s very crowded. The Green Zone looks normal except there’s a heavy military presence.

One of the old features that Radical Entertainment tried to fix is the combat system. Now it’s deeper with a dodging system and AI that doesn’t try to constantly overwhelm players. What I hated about the original is that there were times where you had to grind out missions and nibble at the edges of the enemy crowd, defeating one foe, running away to heal up, and killing another until they’re all defeated. It was tedious, but in the sequel, that seems less likely to happen.

Another part of Prototype 2 that the developer emphasized is the environments and graphics. Visually, the game looks slightly better than the original. I’m hoping the varied environments shows off what the new rendering engine can do. There’s also a more detailed crowd AI that’s suppose to react better to your presence and actions on-screen.

WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED:Prototype 2 looks to be just as over-the-top as the last game. Heller can still elbow drop a tank to destroy it. They can rip off its gun and use it against mercenaries. Radical Entertainment said that players should expect more meaningful powers that will actually have a use. Some of that will come in the mutations and upgrades that will let players decide how they want to play Heller.

From what I saw, the whole disguise mechanic is still there, but there was new move called BioBomb where players inject the virus into an unsuspecting foe and that person ends up exploding and hurting surrounding enemies in the process. It’s an ability that can cause some chaos.

Lastly, the boss battles seem bigger and better. Coincidentally, it echoes some of the creatures that I fought in inFamous 2. It seems that these two comic book-style open-world games are joined at the hip, and one alway colors the impression of the other.

FINAL THOUGHTS: The demo that I saw at E3 came from a game that’s still a year away from release. I’m intrigued to see what the other environments will look like. I’m really hoping for something original and I do like the concept of one hero targeting a hero-turned-villain, but what I really want to see is something drastically more different from Heller.

It’s still early, but there needs to be a reason why playing Heller would be different from Mercer, but I’m not seeing that yet. From the looks of it, Prototype 2 appears to be more of the same, and while I enjoyed the original, I’m not sure I liked it enough to go through it a second time.

i don’t like alex being killed. He is the one original hero. I like alex more. Moreover i like his style. I don’t think its a good idea.

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